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Originally Posted by Yesspaz

Why is Firefox so much better than IE? We not-so-tech-savvy want to know.

INternet Explorer has been around so long, and you add that it has been coded by Microsoft for teh entire time (you know, the guys who brought you the blue screen of death), and so really interprets web pages..well, wrong. Instead of interpreting web standard language correctly, bugs in IE display the web page incorectly, resulting in glitches and all sort of ugly stuff. Web developers these days have to code web pages two different ways - one correctly, and one with all kinds of workaround for the IE bugs!

Firefox/Mozilla adhears to the web standards very well, so web pages appear correctly. PLus, it has tabs (you have have several web pages open within the same window), and all kinds of cool plugins to download.